South Dakota § 7-16-31 - Residency requirements for state's attorney in counties with low population.
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§ 7-16-31. Residency requirements for state's attorney in counties with low population.
In any county with a population of less than five thousand persons, no state's attorney is disqualified from holding office for failure to be a resident of that county if the state's attorney is a resident of a county which is contiguous to the county in which the state's attorney holds such office.
Source: SL 2004, ch 69, § 1.
Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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